Just a friendly reminder

I didn’t see a post about this yet, sooo - Daylight savings time comes early - like this weekend! March 11th. Saturday night, set your clock ahead an hour (spring forward, fall back.)

Thanks! There’s no way I would have remembered that. Why is it so early this year?

Yeah I actually put on the radio this morning on the way to class and heard…I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

It couldn’t have fallen on a worse day for me. I have to work the closing shift Saturday night (usually leave a little past midnight) and the opening shift on Sunday morning (be there by 10:30AM. Count a half hour driving each way, getting ready for bed, getting ready for work etc.)

I’m going to need to do something drastic to get through this. Like drink a cup (or two) of coffee. Which is usually against my M.O., but tough times call for tough measures.

Trying to save energy.

I know, I know, but since we’re not drilling in ANWR, and we’re not awash in Iraqi oil, (if the price at the pump is any indication) I don’t know what else we can do.

Since we are such a 24 hour society now, does anyone know if the time change actually does any good?

I know about it because our IT department at work has pushed at least two patches out to our PCs, trying to get Outlook adjusted to the change, yet all of my appointments for those three weeks are still wrong. And for some reason it has stretched my all-day events, like St. Patrick’s Day, into two-day events.

Not for me, Ivylass. It just means I turn my lights on an hour earlier in the morning. ::shrug:: So I’m burning them morning instead of evening. I don’t see that it helps. But I won’t complain, since it means 3 weeks earlier that I get home from the gym before dark and can play outside with my doggies.

The patches from Bill for Outlook buggered up things here at work. A company-wide meeting for next week was rescheduled from 9AM EST to 8AM EDT (same sun time, see), instead of remaining at 9AM. I emailed the Executive Assistant to confirm what the start time was, and she said it was still at 9AM. This meeting is on a worldwide hookup, so I really hope they scheduled the satellite/internet/voice-conference/whatever time and everything according to GMT…

Now that meeting is the only thing that appears to be off in my schedule. Apparently the original scheduler of the meeting up there in Executiveland needs to update his or her machine with the timezone patch before it is realigned and the change propagated to all. At least that’s one story I heard.

I remain confused.

Our IT department is treating it almost like they did the Y2K change. It seems overkill to me but they are going to validate systems at 2 AM Sunday morning.

I wish they would just get rid of it altogether. I hate, hate, hate losing that hour. It makes me cranky all week.

My alarm clock is some sort of odd pre-programmed jiggity-bob that doesn’t have to be set. Plug it in, it automatically knows the correct time. There’s actually no way to change the time by hand. Which is already annoying as it is, because it’s pre-programmed to run fifteen minutes fast. Now that they’ve changed when DST starts, it’ll be pretty much worthless for the next three weeks.

Well, I’ve been meaning to replace it for a while. Aside from being unalterably fifteen minutes fast, they used blue LEDs for the display. I can use this thing as a reading lamp at night. I have to turn it around to face the wall if I want to get any sleep. I don’t know why I haven’t gotten rid of it before now, but this sounds like just the impetus I need.

Stupid clock.

Some of our staff will be doing similar things, especially with the mainframes. We think IBM and CA got the updates right, but someone does need to be sure of it, as any goofs could get really expensive in a hurry.

In case anyone hasn’t gotten the patches yet:

DST 2007 patches for:
Windows XP/2003 Server
Mac OSX
Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE/2005/Smartphone Edition
PalmOS

Linux users – you’re on your own. :slight_smile: Vista is already configured for it, as I believe is Windows Mobile 2006.

Sunova… So, anyone know how those “atomic” clock synch up? From what I understand, they just receive a radio signal from some official source to get the time. No clue what’d cause the 15 minute adjustment, though.

I haven’t looked for a while, but when I got mine, I’m pretty sure I had to set my time zone and whether or not to use DST. My first assumption is that the signal is sent out as GMT, and the clock translates that to local time. But if so, it’ll be using the old method for determine DST start / end dates, right? So it’ll be an hour off for the next three weeks (and again for a week in November)?

My clock is disobeying a Congressional mandate!

Wait a sec. Do I need one of these “patch” thingies for my home computer? Usually the clock just resets itself by whatever magic it does these things by… :confused:

Windows (and Mac, and Windows Mobile, and Palm, etc.) is programmed to reset the time on specific days of the year. It has to be patched so that it can be reprogrammed for the new days on which the time changes.

Oy. Can’t I just reset the clock? I don’t run anything important like financial software or anything.

A message from the state of Arizona:
:stuck_out_tongue:

I’m sure Saskatchewan is just as amused.

Well, yeah, you could … but you’ll have to reset it again in three weeks when Windows obeys its own internal command to “spring forward.” (Likewise, the reverse will be true in the fall, and for the years that follow)

The patch isn’t a big deal. Answer a few questions, download the file and just run it. It does all the dirty work itself and then you can just ignore it. :slight_smile:

I’m just going to reset my computer clock on Sunday morning, and then do it back again when it thinks Daylight Saving Time starts.

I’m just ticked that Canada is doing this in just because the Americans are. Sheesh, why can’t we think for ourselves?